David Goodstein quotes
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“Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.”
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“Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.”
-- David GoodsteinSource : "Researcher: Dwindling Oil Supplies to Bring Energy Crisis" by Lee Dye, abcnews.go.com.
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“The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing to do. Every time you come to understand something you didn't understand before, you are transformed. You become a different person from who you were before. The key to teaching someone else to understand that same thing is to remember your former, untransformed self. If you can do that, I think you can teach anything, even physics.”
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“No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.”
-- David GoodsteinSource : David Goodstein, Michael Intriligator (2012). “Climate Change and the Energy Problem: Physical Science and Economics Perspective”, p.23, World Scientific Publishing Co Inc
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“The world will soon start to run out of conventionally produced, cheap oil…. We [will] start to run out of all fossil fuels by the end of this century.”
-- David GoodsteinSource : David Goodstein (2005). “Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company
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Source : A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.22
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“O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.”
Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “Muses in mourning. Zara, to which is added, an interlude, never before printed. Snake in the grass. Alzira. Saul. Daraxes. Merope. Roman revenge. Insolvent. Some love letters, by the author”, p.147
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